Verrai:In the article, it's Mondale campaign manager predicting an upset victory. Of course he would have.

Like Subby, I do not like these smoke and mirrors. I would have very much preferred that Mondale's campaign manager came out a few days before the election and said, "You know what, fark it. This thing is in the bag for Reagan."

Boxcutta:Verrai: In the article, it's Mondale campaign manager predicting an upset victory. Of course he would have.

Like Subby, I do not like these smoke and mirrors. I would have very much preferred that Mondale's campaign manager came out a few days before the election and said, "You know what, fark it. This thing is in the bag for Reagan."

The article cites rumors that he actually said that to Mondale. Couldn't blame him.

I scrolled over to the sports section to see how the Vikings did that weekend. That was when Archie Manning was briefly our quarterback and he got sacked 11 times by the Bears. 1984 was not a good year for the Vikings.

Biness:pseydtonne: A microwave cost $200 back then: I think I paid $80 for one last year. Too bad we don't have an $800 VCR ad here too.

you're not thinking fourth dimensionally! WE HAVE TO GO BACK

My dream was to take a few of my old servers, my accidental collection of 56k modems and a time machine to set up an ISP in 1993. The advertising campaign would be pictures of cats and "faster than anything in town!"

I'd forgotten about CBN. That a good chunk of the active spectrum was dedicated to broadcasting megachurch services. I just can't wrap my head around how this could be of use to anyone.

Then the small array of "standard" cable channels and then the "premium"- which no way were my parents ever gonna get. All we could do was listen to the Playboy Channel's audio and try to make sense of the scrambled video.

However, by the late 80's, chips to lobotomize a cable box leaked out into the market. And you could acquire a box you didn't own under your name from flea markets too. Then we realized Playboy Channel only had lame softcore stuff anyways.

I'd forgotten about CBN. That a good chunk of the active spectrum was dedicated to broadcasting megachurch services. I just can't wrap my head around how this could be of use to anyone.

Then the small array of "standard" cable channels and then the "premium"- which no way were my parents ever gonna get. All we could do was listen to the Playboy Channel's audio and try to make sense of the scrambled video.

However, by the late 80's, chips to lobotomize a cable box leaked out into the market. And you could acquire a box you didn't own under your name from flea markets too. Then we realized Playboy Channel only had lame softcore stuff anyways.

True, but to 12 year old me in the late 80s , that softcore stuff on the Playboy Channel was absolutely glorious.

Keep scrolling a few pages and you'll get the movie listings: Ghostbusters, Revenge of the Nerds and the Karate Kid! Also, the Tigers are the World Champs!/ looks like it was all downhill starting at age 7

I am old, so I actually got to vote in that election--it was my second presidential election, and I voted against Reagan in each one and was disappointed (but not really surprised) in the outcome both times. In fact, even though this year will be my ninth presidential election (Jesus, I really am old), I've only voted for the winner twice so far. My sad voting record:

Cyberluddite:I am old, so I actually got to vote in that election--it was my second presidential election, and I voted against Reagan in each one and was disappointed (but not really surprised) in the outcome both times. In fact, even though this year will be my ninth presidential election (Jesus, I really am old), I've only voted for the winner twice so far. My sad voting record:

Cyberluddite:I am old, so I actually got to vote in that election--it was my second presidential election, and I voted against Reagan in each one and was disappointed (but not really surprised) in the outcome both times. In fact, even though this year will be my ninth presidential election (Jesus, I really am old), I've only voted for the winner twice so far. My sad voting record:

Verrai:In the article, it's Mondale campaign manager predicting an upset victory. Of course he would have.

THIS. It's not a reputable poll predicting it, which would have been amusing. It's the campaign manager, therefore not news. Hell, if I had been McGovern's campaign manager in '72, it would have been part of my job to predict an upset victory.